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Guss
Guss

Reputation: 32335

Using AWS Ruby SDK, how can one get the current user's details?

As can be seen in this question, the Java SDK has a method to retrieve the current user based on the request's credentials. Is there a way to do something similar using the Ruby SDK?

I've tried AWS::IAM.new(creds).access_keys[creds[:access_key_id]], but that returns a simple object that answers nil to user or user_name, and my user doesn't have the iam:ListUsers permission so I can't enumerate the users collection.

Basically I need that information because I want to generate a self-approving policy to be attached to some new resources, and I need to fetch the ARN that my configured access key is associated with. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1111

Answers (1)

Trevor Rowe
Trevor Rowe

Reputation: 6528

You can get the current user using the client class. If you are using version 1 of the AWS SDK for Ruby, the aws-sdk gem:

iam = AWS::IAM::Client.new iam.get_user

If you prefer to use the new version 2 AWS SDK for Ruby, just change the root namespace from AWS to Aws:

iam = Aws::IAM::Client.new iam.get_user

Upvotes: 2

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